Top 'Washington Post' editor kills article on deputy's departure

[ificandream]

4. Don't make a rush to judgement

This is a piss-poor article that doesn't give a lot of details but sure makes a lot of interferences. Perfect for social media but not for those looking for real information. There are a lot of reasons stories get yanked. For one, newspapers are very self-conscious about stories on themselves. As the story says, there have been "tensions over the paper's reporting on its own issues." That's not horribly surprising. It happened a lot in newspapers back when I was working for one. Is the killing of the story connected to the editor's transfer? The answer certainly isn't clear from the article.

And from the last paragraph: "Murray took responsibility for the decision not to have the Post cover this latest development about its leadership, despite the ramifications for the paper. An editor with whom he spoke told colleagues that Murray had not read the planned article on Gold but said to "pin it on me" if anyone asked why it did not run."

This NPR article almost treads into Fox territory. It's pretty sad.